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A 28-year-old Bushkill Township man is accused of trying to burglarize a home in northern Bucks County early Sunday morning, state police at Dublin said. Investigators say Stephen R. Loureiro has been charged with burglary and related charges after the incident, which happened shortly before 1 a.m. on East Broad Street in Trumbauersville. Police say Loureiro forced his way into the house before running away when he was confronted by the homeowner, a 50-year-old woman. Investigators say they eventually caught up to Loureiro on Tollgate Road in Milford Township, where they responded to a report of a man trespassing at a property there about 3:30 a.m. Officers took him into custody a short while later, police said.

A Phillipsburg man has been charged with having oral sex with a boy in exchange for alcohol and other gifts in the 1990s. Barry Miller, 42, was arrested Tuesday and accused of sexually assaulting the boy, who was 13 and 14 years old when prosecutors say the incidents happened in town in 1996 and 1998. Phillipsburg police and Detective James Bruno of the neighboring Morris County prosecutor's sex crimes unit are investigating the case. Miller was arraigned by Superior Court Judge Maritza Berdote-Byrne on one count of second-degree sexual assault.

A Lowhill Township man accused of beating his wife to death rejected a plea deal Thursday that called for a minimum sentence of just four years in prison, saying he wants a trial. It's a big gamble for James F. Albright, who could face decades more, and even life behind bars, if he's convicted at trial. Albright, 56, told Lehigh County Judge James T. Anthony he rejected a deal calling for him to admit to third-degree murder. The deal called for Albright's minimum sentence to be four years, according to First Assistant District Attorney Steven Luksa.

Prosecutors are seeking to revoke a plea deal with a Bethlehem man charged with serially raping teenagers he met on Facebook — a filing Tuesday that came two days after The Morning Call published details of a letter in which he proclaimed his innocence. David Martinez is slated to receive eight to 20 years in state prison under an agreement in January in which he did not contest allegations that he forced himself on five teens, the youngest of whom was 14 and two of whom were pregnant.

A Bethlehem man accused of assaulting his girlfriend over several days, beating her with a baseball bat and threatening her with a knife, accepted a plea agreement Monday to a misdemeanor charge after his victim twice failed to show for court. Nakhiem N. Battle, 25, plans to admit to a harassment charge, his attorney said, in what is the third time in a less than a year that he has gotten into trouble for abusing Chenae Brown, with whom he has a child. The plea deal came as Battle waived a long-delayed preliminary hearing at the Northampton County Courthouse in Easton.

Richland Township police said they have charged two motorists with drunken driving in separate accidents last week in the township. John B. Luchansky, 56, of Yale Court, Franconia Township, was charged with drunken driving after a single-vehicle crash March 19 in the area of 250 Mill Road, police said. Leslie Anne Humlhanz, 30, of Ridge Road, Salford Township, was arrested on a DUI charge after a two-vehicle accident Saturday at Route 309 and Station Road, police said. — Frank Warner

The Monroe County founder of the Singing Boys of Pennsylvania choir was charged Wednesday with the rape of at least one choir member in the summer of 1996. Kenneth B. Schade, 74, of Marshalls Creek, who founded the choir of boys from Monroe and Northampton counties in 1970, was arrested Wednesday by state police at Swiftwater. Schade is now artistic director of the choir, which traditionally has had singers 10 to 14 years old. Schade was charged with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of a person under 16 years old, aggravated indecent assault and statutory sexual assault in connection with incidents that happened around July 1996, state police said.

The Lansdale barber who fled last week after he allegedly stabbed a fellow barber with a pair of scissors has turned himself in to borough police. Accompanied by his lawyer, Junior DiBartolo, 24, of Oakland Avenue surrendered 6:15 p.m. Monday at the Lansdale police headquarters, police said. DiBartolo stabbed the left side of the other barber's chest three times about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday in the Finest Barber Shop at 318 W. Main St., police said. He was arraigned Tuesday by District Judge Harold Borek on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, possession of an instrument of crime, harassment and disorderly conduct.

By Riley Yates and Pamela Lehman, Of The Morning Call | March 25, 2014

Authorities have charged a murder defendant and his wife with sneaking a cellphone into Northampton County Prison, the latest twist in a case that includes allegations of a scheme to have witnesses killed. Rene Figueroa was arraigned Tuesday on contraband and conspiracy charges after county detectives said he was caught with the phone in December by corrections officers. Figueroa's wife, Sonia I. Panell, also faces the same charges, accused of passing the phone to him during a visit at the jail.

A Monroe County couple are facing child endangerment and drug charges after they allegedly sold heroin from the home where they live with their 3-year-old son, Pocono Mountain Regional police said. Jonathan Davis, 26, and his girlfriend Kathleen Xander, 24, of the 100 block of Canoe Trail in Coolbaugh Township, are being charged with possession with intent to deliver heroin, possession of heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia, criminal conspiracy, criminal use of a communication facility and child endangerment.